Climate Change Alert: Australia So Hot, Weather Bureau Adds ‘Deep Purple’ To Heat Index
Here in the winter of our discontent, Americans are free to deny climate change — or at least put off thinking about it. Unfortunately — according to John Queally from Common Dreams — our friends below the equator don’t have that option, as the land of Oz sweats out this summer’s heatwaves, wildfires, and record-breaking temperatures of 122° Fahrenheit. David Jones, head of the Australia Bureau of Meteorology’s climate monitoring and prediction unit declared, “The current heatwave – in terms of its duration, its intensity and its extent – is now unprecedented in our records [and] The air mass over the inland is still heating up — it hasn’t peaked.”
As a clear sign that Jones and his colleagues view hotter climes and raging wild fires as ‘the new normal’ rather than a temporary phenomenon, they increased the upper range of their heat index today to a shocking 129°F, and ominously named the new color code “Deep Purple.” Whether this is a joking reference to Deep Purple and Journey’s upcoming Australian tour, or merely indicates that they’ve run out of other colors, ‘inquiring minds’ may never know. Australia’s leading scientists — including Jones — unequivocally blame human-made climate change for this summer’s scorching temperatures. In an interview with Ben Cubby from The Age, Jones states:
‘‘Clearly, the climate system is responding to the background warming trend. Everything that happens in the climate system now is taking place on a planet which is a degree hotter than it used to be.
We know that global climate doesn’t respond monotonically – it does go up and down with natural variation. That’s why some years are hotter than others because of a range of factors. But we’re getting many more hot records than we’re getting cold records. That’s not an issue that is explained away by natural variation.”
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/01/08/climate-change-alert-australia-so-hot-weather-bureau-adds-deep-purple-to-heat-index/
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So where are the climate deniers now?
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